chronolect
noun/ˈkɹɒnəʊlɛkt/
Etymology From chrono- (“time”) + -lect (“[language] variety”).
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Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences, Social science, Sociolinguistics, Sociology A specific variety of a language at a given time in its history of development.
- Koine and Byzantine are chronolects of Greek.
- Taking lect in the sense of ‘variety’ (and not ‘social variety’), I have coined spatiolect ‘spatial variety’, chronolect ‘chronological variety’, communolect ‘variety of a community (however defined)’, ecolect ‘variety of an economic class’, ethnolect ‘variety of an ethnic group’, religiolect ‘variety of a religious group’, sexlect ‘variety of one of the sexes or of people with a certain sexual orientation’, urbolect ‘urban variety’, and rurolect ‘rural variety’.1981, Leuvense Bijdragen, volume LXX, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, page 52:
- Derived terms
- chronolectal